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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

Sir William Osler

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle

Albert Einstein

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. De Mille

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.

Charles M. Crowe

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Daisaku Ikeda

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

Charles A. Lindbergh

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Ralph Johnson Bunche

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth

Albert Einstein

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Hermann Hesse

Ideals are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Bill Moyers

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

George Norman Douglas

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Walter Lippmann

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